• Build for fun, play to win
• The golden rule
• Avoid high variance cards
• Four pillars of Commander
• Play more card draw
• Haste is good

For those that don’t know me, I am a bit of a Magic the Gathering junkie. I’ve been playing since 2020 and have dabbled in a variety of formats, but by far the largest share of my time has been spent playing and building decks for Commander.

Commander is a bit of a strange format within the Magic ecosystem. Magic the Gathering for most of its history was designed to be a fairly competitive 1v1 format.

Build for fun, play to win

The golden rule

Everybody gets to participate.

Commander ultimately is a party game, built from the mechanics of a highly competitive game.

Avoid high variance cards

Four pillars of Commander

Play more card draw

PLAY MORE CARD DRAW

Haste is good

Click here to read Part 1, a general deck-tech of the Phlage Commander deck, or [Part 3], a card-by-card analysis of that deck.